Labour Party Leadership supporting nominations closed at 1pm today: CLPs David Miliband – 165 Ed Miliband – 148 Andy Burnham – 44 Diane Abbott – 20 Ed Balls – 17 Trade Unions (in approx size order) Unite – Ed Miliband Unison - Ed Miliband GMB - Ed Miliband USDAW - David Miliband CWU - Ed Balls Community - David Miliband UCATT - Ed Miliband TSSA - Diane Abbott ASLEF - Diane Abbott NUM â...

Ed Miliband - 39 MP nominations (6 over requirement) David Miliband - 36 (3 over) Ed Balls - 7 Andy Burnham - 3 Diane Abbott - 0 John McDonnell - 0

Cross-posted from HarpyMarx David Miliband, Ed Miliband, Jon Cruddas deciding not to stand now ( though described as the ‘left’ candidate…really? His voting pattern is thoroughly NL…no rebellious streak there nor an independent thinker!), Ed Balls…..Andy Burnham David Miliband voted for the Iraq war, Balls and Miliband junior were elec...

The first batch of leadership nominations have been posted on the Labour website. I believe this will be updated twice a day. Ed Miliband is so far the only validly nominated candidate: Ed Miliband: 35 MP nominations David Miliband: 19 Ed Balls: 4 Andy Burnham: 1 Diane Abbott: 0 John McDonnell: 0

David Miliband - 51 nominations Ed Miliband - 46 nominations Ed Balls - 23 nominations Andy Burnham - 14 nominations John McDonnell - 4 nominations Diane Abbott - 0

After recently watching them on a Channel Four News debate, I was surprised at the caliber of two of the candidates for the Labour Party leadership. Out of the five, David Miliband and Andy Burnham have clearly modeled their political persona on Tony Blair, having said this, each of the other three, Ed Miliband, Ed Balls and Diane Abbott would fit comfortable into a pre Blair Labour Party. What su...

The news that Unison has decided to back Ed Miliband must make it very likely he can beat his brother as many insiders had assumed Unison would back Burnham. Current state of play on unions and affiliates is as follows: Unions - ranked by size of affiliation: Unite - not nominated yet Unison - Ed Miliband GMB - Ed Miliband USDAW - David Miliband CWU - Ed Balls Community - David Miliband UCATT - Ed...

Andy Burnham has turned on the front-runners in the Labour leadership battle, saying David and Ed Miliband are "elite" and lack real life experience.

"Quietly confident." That's how Diane Abbott felt as the Labour leadership ballot entered its final hours today. I can only assume that she meant "…of victory," but the bookies, and all sensible observers, are telling a different story. With the polls now closed, Ladbrokes has David Miliband as the 4/7 favourite, Ed Miliband is on 5/4, Ed Balls and Andy Burnham are b...

Left-winger Diane Abbott gets last-minute backing to join David Miliband, Ed Miliband, Ed Balls and Andy Burnham on the ballot to become leader of the Labour Party